title: Successful detection and surgical treatment of cardiac hemangioma with right ventricular invasion.
abstract: Cardiac hemangiomas are extremely rare benign tumors. These tumors are usually asymptomatic but they can present symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, and arrythmia. We report the case of a 73-year-old man who presented with an abnormal shadow on chest computed tomography during follow-up for lung metastatic tumor after resection of his rectal cancer. A cardiac tumor was detected, and surgical resection and right ventricular plasty were successfully performed with the patient under cardiopulmonary bypass. Histopathologic examination revealed a benign cardiac hemangioma, which was categorized as a hemangioma of the mixed cavernous and capillary type.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan. Electronic address: y.iida@vanilla.ocn.ne.jp.
authors.forename: Yasunori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Iida
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kitahara
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Motojiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takebe
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nemoto
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Reiko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shimokawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshitake
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Takahiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Misumi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness
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